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Sunday, February 3, 2013

BB43 Summary - The Podars

Ladies, Gentlemen, Children of all ages and Immortals. Welcome to the first annual Podars award ceremony! The members of the Eve Online blogging community have made their nominations and have cast their votes. Tonight we celebrate the best, and in some cases the worse, that New Eden gave us in the year 2012.

This evening we will be presenting awards in 21 categories, down from over 100 individual categories suggested by the "Bantereeno Academy". So, without further a-do lets move onto our first award and here to present the awards are the golden couple of New Eden, Bagdel.

Ship of the Year 2012
The nominees comprised of a mix of old favourites like the Hurricane to the brand new like the Venture (Interstellar Privateer). Even the New Eden Space Potato was nominated (Diaries of a Space Noob)! However, there can only be one winner..... actually there isn't as there were 9 nominations and each one was different! Bollocks, this is off to a bad start already!

Best Overhaul/Improvement/Module of the Year
The Ancillary Shield Booster was nominated by Morphisat's Blog and Jester's Trek. Interstellar Privateer nominated both the Crimewatch overhaul and the SMA/CHA Inventory Speed fix. However, with two votes the ASB is 2012's Best Overhaul/Improvement/Module of the Year!

CCP Dev of the Year
There were a lot of nominees for various categories of CCP Developer awards which have been condensed down to two categories. This first category recognises awesomesauce in the field of furthering important internet spaceships. Whilst we had single votes for Veritas, Explorer and Stillman. CCP Fozzie was a popular choice with nominations from Interstellar Privateer, Eve Opportunist, The Ramblings of an Eve-Radio DJ and Crossing Zebras and walks away with the golden pod!

Most Approachable/Nicest/Promising Dev
The second of the developer awards goes to those who keep us entertained and enthralled on the forums and social media with information, banter and general chitchat about important internet spaceships.... and cake.
CCP Eterne was nominated by Interstellar Privateer, CCP Punkturis by Morphisat's Blog, CCP Diagoras by Sindel's Universe. Interstellar Privateer and Poetic Discourse both went for the winner, CCP Explorer.

Corp/Alliance of the Year
As expected the big names are here such as the Goons (Interstellar Privateer and Fiddlers Edge), TEST (Interstellar Privateer and Fiddlers Edge again) and Verge of Collapse (Interstellar Privateer and Emergent Patroller). OGREI was nominated by Tetras Eve Blog. -A- was nominated by Fiddlers Edge. Its a three way tie with no clear winner between Goons, TEST and VoC!

Player/Menace/Nemesis/Hero/Villain of the Year
A tight race between the three nominees @akely (Morphisat's Blog), Loren Gallen (Sand, Cider and Spaceships) and The Mittani (The Nosy Gamer). In fact it is so tight, it's a draw!

Best CSM Member
Interstellar Privateer, Malefactor and The Nosy Gamer all agree there can only be one. Hans Jagerblitzen!

Best Event, Project or Contest
This category looks at non-CCP events in 2012. The Angel Project was nominated by Interstellar Privateer, the Pod and Planet Fiction Contest again by Interstellar Privateer and also by Emergent Patroller. The Tuskers Free-For-All by Interstellar Privateer and Diaries of a Space Noob. The Vagabond Frill Campaign by Mabrick's Mumblings and Odda's Smart-Bombing Titan being Hot-dropped by FW noobs by Sand, Cider and Spaceships. The winner being.... a tie between the P&P Fiction Contest and the Tuskers FFA!

Best OOG Tool
As expected Aura and Dotlan did well will with nominations from both Interstellar Privateer and Mabrick's Mumblings leaving them tied as joint winners.

Best Podcast/DJ
A hotly contested category with 12 nominees. Voices from the Void was nominated by 2nd Anomaly from the Left, Fiddler's Edge and Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah. Crossing Zebras was nominated by Malefactor, Fiddler's Edge, Poetic Discourse and Sindel's Universe. The Nosy Gamer recognised the works of DJ Wiggles and DJ FunkyBacon whilst Interstellar Privateer and Emergent Patroller asked for Down the Pipe to be considered. But with four nominations the Golden Pod goes to Crossing Zebras.

Best Eve/News Website.
This category is for Eve related websites. Other than the votes for Eve Bloggers by Mabrick's Mumblings and Morphisat's Blog, two sites dominated this catagory. Eve News 24 was in second place, but with seven nominations, theMittani.com is the clear winner.

Best Other Media
This category recognises media other than websites, blogs and podcasts. Video, magazines and PDF's are all examples of what we are talking about here. JonnyPew was nominated by Interstellar Privateer and Shelter for an Empyrean and walks away with the award beating Mark726's Lore Guide, Eon Magazine and a comprehensive list of Eve Online YouTube'rs from Shelter for an Empyrean.

Best Blog
Condensing all the various blog categories down to two was a mammoth task. Of the 52 blogs that were nominees, six had three or more nominations. Daries of a Space Noob was suggested by Fiddler's Edge, Interstellar Pivateer and Jester's Trek. Eveoganda was nominated by 2nd Anomaly from the Left, Aggressive Logistics, EveHermit, Sand, Cider and Spaceships and the Nosy Gamer. Low Sec Lifestyle received votes from Interstellar Privateer, The Nosy Gamer and Diaries of a Space Noob. Poetic Discourse was voted for by Crossing Zebra's, EveHermit, Jester's Trek and Malefactor. The Nosy Gamer received votes from Interstellar Privateer, Jester's Trek and Mad Haberdashers. But the winner was nominated by 12 Banter's including blogs such as Sered's Live's and Eve Opportunist, gives Jester's Trek a good win here.

Most Controversial Blog
Whilst many Banterers made individual blog categories that would fit into the Best Blog category one special category did repeat. That of most controversial blog. Interstellar Privateer, 2nd Anomaly from the Left, Fiddler's Edge, Sindel's Universe and The Ramblings of an Eve-Radio DJ all nominated the same blog and there were no other nominees. None. Congratulations Poetic Discourse.

Best Fiction.
A small category with nominations for Sand, Cider and Spaceships by Diaries of a Space Noob and for Emergent Patroller by A Journey Through the Mind leaving a tie. Given it is a small category Freebooted gets a mention as he was nominated by the above.

Champion of the Community/Lifetime Achievement
This was a two horse race between Mr Banter aka Seismic Stan and Arydanika for her work in the world of podcasts. But with four out of the nine nominations, the Blogfather gets the Golden Pod.

Best Drama/Derp/Could Have Destroyed Eve but Chose Not To/Whoopsie Award
Although Makula (nominated by Sered's Lives) and "The Live Streaming Botter" (The Nosy Gamer) received nominations five of the seven nominations were for one man.... who was very drunk.... was given a microphone....... and then did 'that' presentation at Fanfest. The Mittani.

The Honourable Mention Award
This catagory see's all those "best" categories from the various blogs that didn't fit in well to any other catagories. Some I suspect were tongue in cheek like the nomination of Makula Zarya by Sindel's Universe. Others were more heart-felt such as Malefactor voting for Rixx Javix and Seismic Stan. Some were positively gushing with Diaries of a Space Noob voting for the entire Eve-O community. However, with two votes the Golden Pod goes to Rixx Javix.

The Dis-Honourable Mention.
There were a collection of categories that fit in to this award, the sort of Golden Raspberries. This included things like "Most Mis-leading Blog" and "Keep trying, you might get there one day" type categories The "winner" with two votes in areas entitled along the lines of "I'm in a bad mood as I had a great idea, why does everyone hate it?" was CCP Greyscale.

Everyone is a Winner
Our final award goes to EVERYONE! Both A Missioner in Eve and Eveoganda did not give any nominations but wanted to spread the love far and wide. Therefore the winner of this catagory is YOU!

Well that is it for the actual awards. If you are interested in how the winners were chosen......

The Nominees.

This was HELL to do! Everyone had their own different categories. Some were similar and easy to merge, some were utterly unique. In order for this to work I had to condense the categories down to something manageable. I also condensed the nominees from various blogs. If someone mentioned 5 or 6 contenders but named an overall winner, that winner is included below. If someone just listed nominees without identifying a clear winner then they all went in below. Also, unfortunately I had to guess some of the categories and try to ascertain if they were good or bad. "Does the title of that award mean I should include it in the honourable or dishonourable mentions????" Additionally if I had used all the categories we'd have 100 with one nominee in each. For example the "Best blog" includes "Best new comer/technical/political/null sec/industry/mechanics/guides/eye candy/best use of the word goobledegook etc etc etc. Final issue was the "lost in translation" effect. I had to Google some names of categories as they meant nothing to this Middle East residing Englishman! If I've interpreted your blog entry wrong, I'm sorry, but after doing the below my head is about to burst!

Here are all the individual nominations:-

Ship of the Year
Hurricane by Interstellar Privateer
Thorax by Interstellar Privateer
Proteus by Interstellar Privateer
Loki by Interstellar Privateer
Venture by Interstellar Privateer
Federation Navy Comet by Diaries of a Space Noob
Dominix by Diaries of a Space Noob
Incursus by Diaries of a Space Noob
Tornado by Jester's Trek

Best Podcast
Down the Pipe by Interstellar Privateer
Rundle Allnighter by Malefactor
Crossing Zebra's by Malefactor
Voices from the Void by 2nd Anomaly from the Left
Down the Pipe by Emergent Patroller
Crossing Zebra's by Fiddler's Edge
Voices from the Void by Fiddler's Edge
Voices from the Void by Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah
Crossing Zebra's by Poetic Discourse
Crossing Zebra's by Sindel's Universe
DJ Wiggles on Eve Radio by The Nosy Gamer
DJ FunkyBacon on Eve Radio by The Nosy Gamer

Best Other Media
Jonny Pew by Interstellar Privateer
Eon Magazine by Mabrick's Mumblings
The ISK Guide by Mabrick's Mumblings
Delonewolf by Shelter for an Empyrean
KensCrazyGaming by Shelter for an Empyrean
DrOgres by Shelter for an Empyrean
JonnyPew by Shelter for an Empyrean
Mintchiplol by Shelter for an Empyrean
Kil2 by Shelter for an Empyrean
DJStarstream by Sindel's Universe

Best Eve/News Website
themittani.com by Interstellar Privateer
Evebloggers.com Morphisat's Blog
TheMittani.com by 2nd Anomaly from the Left
EveNews24 by 2nd Anomaly from the Left
Eve Bloggers by Mabrick's Mumblings
EveNews24 by Mabrick's Mumblings
The Mittani.com by Mabrick's Mumblings
The Mittani.com by A Journey Through the Mind
EveNews24 by Poetic Discourse
The Mittani.com by Sindel's Universe
The Mittani.com by The Ramblings of an Eve-Radio DJ
The Mittani.com by Crossing Zebras

Best Blog
Jester's Trek by Interstellar Privateer
Sand, Cider and Spaceships by Interstellar Privateer
The Noisy Gamer - by Interstellar Privateer
The Altruist by Interstellar Privateer
Diaries of a Space Noob by Interstellar Privateer
Eve Travel by Interstellar Privateer
Low Sec Lifestyle by Interstellar Privateer
Poetic Discourse by Malefactor
Jester's Trek by Malefactor
Eveoganda by 2nd Anomaly from the Left
Freebooted by 2nd Anomaly from the Left
The Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah by 2nd Anomaly from the Left
Fiddlers Edge by Mad Haberdashers
Mabrick's Mumblings by Mad Haberdashers
The Nosy Gamer by Mad Haberdashers
Low-Sec Lifestyle by Diaries of a Space Noob
Jester's Trek by Eve Opportunist
Sov Wars by Eve Opportunist
Jester's Trek by Fiddler's Edge
Diaries of a Space Noob by Fiddler's Edge
Jester's Trek by Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah
The Nosy Gamer by Jester's Trek
Poetic Discourse by Jester's Trek
Malefactor by Jester's Trek
Diaries of a Space Noob by Jester's Trek
A CARBON Based Lifeform by Mabrick's Mumblings
Tiger Ears by Mabrick's Mumblings
Tiger Ears by A Journey Through the Mind
Jester's Trek by A Journey Through the Mind
The Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah by Aggressive Logistics
Jester's Trek by Aggressive Logistics
Eveoganda by Aggressive Logistics
Jester's Trek by Poetic Discourse
Sov Wars by Poetic Discourse
Out Of Cake by Poetic Discourse
Eveoganda by Sand, Cider and Spaceships
Jester's Trek by Sered's Lives
Eve Travel by The Nosy Gamer
Missioneer in Eve by The Nosy Gamer
Low Sec Lifestyle by The Nosy Gamer
Jester's Trek by The Nosy Gamer
Eveoganda by The Nosy Gamer
Jester's Trek by Crossing Zebras
Poetic Discourse by Crossing Zebras
Through Newb Eyes by Evehermit
Sand, Cider and Spaceships by Evehermit
Jester's Trek by Evehermit
Aredent Defender by Evehermit
K162space by Evehermit
Greedy Goblin by Evehermit
Poetic Discourse by Evehermit
Eveoganda by Evehermit

Most Controversial Blog
Poetic Discourse by Interstellar Privateer
Poetic Discourse by 2nd Anomaly from the Left
Poetic Discourse by Fiddler's Edge
Poetic Discourse by Sindel's Universe
Poetic Discourse by The Ramblings of an Eve-Radio DJ

Best Fiction
Sand, Cider and Spaceships by Diaries of a Space Noob
Emergent Patroller by A Journey Through the Mind

Champion of the Community/Lifetime Achievement
Seismic Stan by Interstellar Privateer
Seismic Stan by Inner Sanctum of the Ninveah
Riverini by Jester's Trek
Seismic Stan by Sand, Cider and Spaceships
@arydanika by The Ramblings of an Eve-Radio DJ
Arydanika by Crossing Zebras
Seismic Stan by Crossing Zebras
Rixx Javix by Interstellar Privateer
CCP Dolan by Malefactor

Best Drama/Derp/Could Have Destroyed Eve but Chose Not To
The Mittani at Fanfest by Malefactor
The Mittani at Fanfest by Poetic Discourse
Makalu Zarya at Sered's Lives
The Mittani at Fanfest by Sindel's Universe
The Botter who Live Streamed by The Nosy Gamer
The Mittani at Fanfest by Crossing Zebras
The Mittani by Jester's Trek

The Honourrable Mention Mention
Rixx Javix by Malefactor
Seismic Stan by Malefactor
The Community by Diaries of a Space Noob
Rixx Javix by Mabrick's Mumblings
Mark726 by Sand, Cider and Spaceships
Richter Enderas by Sindel's Universe
Makula Zarya and -A- by Sindel's Universe

8 comments:

Given the quality of the company we are in, I am incredibly humbled that CZ got the nod for Best Podcast. Just knowing that people listen is awesome, even being considered a peer of the likes of Jade and Arydanika is amazing but to win is outrageous. Thank you very much to everyone who has listened to the show over the past 8 months.

Congrats to all the winners and thanks Drackarn for doing such a good job summarising BB43.

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